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This clip from the new Looney Tunes Show imagines Daffy Duck as an immensely powerful wizard. Or at least, that's what he thinks. Despite the frame selection above, the video is completely SFW.

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I love this pillow set design by Todd von Bastiaans and Bryan McCarthy. They really do look like pancakes with pats of butter!

http://www.unicahome.com/p65219/miscellaneous/pancake-floor-pillows-by-todd-von-bastiaans.html -via Super Punch

A Latin professor once told me that the number of texts that have survived from antiquity to modern times may be likened to a single cup of sand from a beach. But it's not just major works from classical Greece and Rome that are lost. Some books by modern authors, too, have not survived the ravages of time. Megan Gambino of Smithsonian magazine has a roundup of ten books that are mentioned in various places, but have never been located. Among them is Cardenio, a play that William Shakespeare may have written:

There is evidence that Shakespeare’s company, the King’s Men, performed the play for King James I in May 1613—and that Shakespeare and John Fletcher, his collaborator for Henry VIII and Two Noble Kinsmen, wrote it. But the play itself is nowhere to be found.

And what a shame! From the title, scholars infer that the plot had something to do with a scene in Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote involving a character named Cardenio. (A translation of Don Quixote was published in 1612 and would have been available to Shakespeare.)

A lost book that I would love to read is an account by Pytheas of Marseilles, a Fourth Century BCE Greek explorer. He is thought to have explored Britain and the Baltic Sea long before other Greek explorers reached these areas. Alas, his manuscript survives only in quotation by other ancient authors.

Link -via Marginal Revolution | Photo: Wikimedia Commons

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Marquese Scott moves in a way that looks inhuman. How does he do it? If you're too busy to watch the whole video, skip ahead to the 4 minute mark.

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Strategic bombing during World War I worried the French enough that they decided to build a fake Paris outside of the real one to distract German pilots. They hoped that this series of sheds, lights and roads would lure the enemy away from their capital. Although the French began construction, the war ended it before completion. Ptak Science Books has copies of a 1920 article from the Illustrated London News about the project.

Link -via io9

You won't need bookends with these shelves designed by Luke Hart. Just stretch out the silicone until the books fit snugly. They're on display today in London at the Sculpture House of the London Design Festival.

http://www.behance.net/gallery/Rubber-Shelves-for-The-Sculpture-House/2150469 -via Colossal

Babies are so cute, and young Star Wars villains are no exception. Etsy seller Octopus Tree House made prints of Darth Vader, Jabba the Hutt, Boba Fett, and a Tusken raider before they were famous.

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No, this isn't just a roll that a chef made to get into the record books. You can actually order this five kilogram roll at the Umewaka Restaurant in Anjo City, Japan. You'll have to place your order two days in advance and pay ¥15,000 ($197 USD), but at least you'll walk away full.

Link -via Bit Rebels | Photo: Oddity Central

Previously:
Ridiculously Large Sushi in Japan
World's Largest Sushi Arrangement

How did Flickr user Northwest dad do it? Was it Photoshop? No! Scroll down to see his clever camera setup. | Link -via That's Nerdalicious!

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The second episode of the second season of the cartoon My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic mimicked the closing scene of Episode IV of Star Wars. It's hard for Bronies to get respect from some quarters, but this scene alone says much in favor of the show.

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The parents of a newborn penguin at an aquarium in China rejected him, probably for being unusually devoid of feathers. But caretakers nursed him to good health and brought him back into the colony:

The aquarium set up a penguin group to care for the youngster around the clock. After a month of hand feeding the little penguin was much stronger and, to the delight of keepers, even grew feathers. It was then successfully re-introduced to its family group.

Follow the link to see what he looks like with feathers.

Link -via The Mary Sue | Photo: Quirky China News/Rex Features

Nick of Dude Foods has made Oreos even more Oreawesome! He took triple stacked double Oreos and dipped them in chocolate. Then, like any sensible chef, he deep fried them. Because anything can be deep friend and therefore, logically, everything should be deep fried.

Link -via That's Nerdalicious!

What? You think that your dog is entitled to some dignity? Bah! He should be dressed up like Sean Connery from the weird 1974 science fiction movie Zardoz. That's what Dave Shumka's wife did with their dog Grampa, and a fine job of it, too. Note her attention to detail: the dog is even wearing leather boots and a braided ponytail.

Link -via Boing Boing | Previously: 8-Bit Zardoz

And make sure that there's an ice scraper in your car, because Ned Stark's forecasts are usually spot-on.

If you know the artist responsible for this marvelous Game of Thrones image, let me know in the comments. This image was made by a Spanish artist named Faniseto. Thanks, Crossbow!

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The Twenty-Second Rule of Acquisition says that "A wise man can hear profit in the wind." He senses opportunities and maneuvers around obstacles with ingenuity. That's what fashion mogul Kenneth Cole did in 1982, when he was just getting started in the business. He needed to show his shoes at a New York City fair, but didn't have enough money to get in. He rented a large truck and hoped to park it on the street for a mobile fashion show. But Cole couldn't get the necessary permit from the Mayor's office. Only utility and motion picture companies could park trucks for extended periods of time. It was in this exemption that Cole found a way around the permitting problem:

So Mr. Cole decided to do just that -- shoot a movie. He filed for a permit to shoot "The Birth of a Shoe Company," and outfitted his trailer with a director, cameramen (although not all of them had film), and "actresses" who played the "roles" of models, displaying the shoes.

And yes, the shoes were indeed for sale. Kenneth Cole sold all 40,000 pairs of shoes over two and a half days, establishing itself as a force in the fashion of footwear, and giving the company a much needed cash infusion as it expanded toward greater heights.

Link | Photo by Flickr user Kables used under Creative Commons license